I would be interested in seeing an article about the topic in another country, so I might fork over the four dollars. Here, the strange thing is that pharmacy chains are the ones who've been saying to pharmacists that they can't do that. (There is also apparently a *walkin clinic with a nurse practitioner* for the uninsured at a Rite Aid in Portland now, one of many....they do let you fill any prescriptions at ANY pharmacy, and it's some kind of partnership, not medical people Rite Aid hires. But how bizarre is taht?)
Anyway.... it's not just inconvenienced, although we're talking about towns with only one pharmacy sometimes....I've heard of birth control prescriptions being torn up.
I have had it pointed out to me that there are very few religions which do not consider birth control either positive or at least allowable. From the little research I could do on the intarwub, that seems to be borne out.
The last abortion clinic in South Dakota - in Sioux Falls - will be shut down when their law goes into effect. Meanwhile no doctors in SD will perform abortions, the doctor who does them at the clinic (ONE) is from Minnesota. I'm fairly sure she commutes. South Dakotan women who've had abortions are afraid to have their faces shown (well, duh) for fear of harassment and possibly violent retribution. The same people who got abortion bans are pushing abstinence-only education (and promoting it nationally.... abstinence.net I believe).
I think the most vomit-inducing part of the short tv special was the coverage of the PURITY BALL where teenage girls were taken by their fathers to this formal dance and took a vow to "remain sexually pure" until they "give themselves as a gift to their husbands on their wedding night" - there was a ring placed on each girl's finger, I didn't catch by whom but imagine it was by her father, and it looked like it was on the wedding finger. (Google "purity prom" - which I first misremembered this as - and find ads for roses for purity ball OR weddings.)
Nothing quite as heartwarming as a daddy's love for his precious little HYMEN.
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Anyway.... it's not just inconvenienced, although we're talking about towns with only one pharmacy sometimes....I've heard of birth control prescriptions being torn up.
I have had it pointed out to me that there are very few religions which do not consider birth control either positive or at least allowable. From the little research I could do on the intarwub, that seems to be borne out.
The last abortion clinic in South Dakota - in Sioux Falls - will be shut down when their law goes into effect. Meanwhile no doctors in SD will perform abortions, the doctor who does them at the clinic (ONE) is from Minnesota. I'm fairly sure she commutes. South Dakotan women who've had abortions are afraid to have their faces shown (well, duh) for fear of harassment and possibly violent retribution. The same people who got abortion bans are pushing abstinence-only education (and promoting it nationally.... abstinence.net I believe).
I think the most vomit-inducing part of the short tv special was the coverage of the PURITY BALL where teenage girls were taken by their fathers to this formal dance and took a vow to "remain sexually pure" until they "give themselves as a gift to their husbands on their wedding night" - there was a ring placed on each girl's finger, I didn't catch by whom but imagine it was by her father, and it looked like it was on the wedding finger. (Google "purity prom" - which I first misremembered this as - and find ads for roses for purity ball OR weddings.)
Nothing quite as heartwarming as a daddy's love for his precious little HYMEN.